Gilbert anderson



(No Model.)

G.ANDERSON. AUTOMATIC WEIGHING APPARATUS.

No. 561,470. Patented June 2, 1896.

ANDREW lGRAHAM. PHUTULITKQWASHIN GTON, D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GILBERT ANDERSON, OF CHRISTCHURCH, NE\V ZEALAND.

AUTOMATIC WEIG HING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561 ,47'0, dated June 2, 1896.

Application filed September 8, 1894. $erial No. 522,478. (No model.) Patented in New Zealaud September 8, 1892,110. 5,760; in Victoria October 6,1892,N0.10,021; in Queensland October 7, 1892, No. 2,185, and in New South Wales October 8,1892,

To ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that-I, GILBERT ANDERSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and- Ireland, residing at Cln'istchurch, in the Colony of: New Zealand, have invented a certain new and useful Automatic XVeighin g Apparatus, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Victoria, No. 10,021, dated October 6, 1892; in New Zealand, No. 5,760, dated September S, 1892; in Queensland, No. 2,185, dated October 7, 1892, and in New South "Wales, No. 4,028, dated October 8, 1802,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new or improved apparatus whereby careases of meat can be automatically weighed without being removed from the rail-track upon which they travel.

The apparatus is more particularly adapted for use in freezing works; and it consists of two suspended levers connected one behind the other at right angles or otherwise, the front one having a recessed hanging-bar attached thereto, the bottom part of which has a plate of the same thickness as the rail-track fitting into an opening or gap in said railtrack. The back lever is provided with a pointer, While a curved dial-plate, having two series of figures thereon, is attached to a suitable support immed iately behind said pointer. The inner series of figures represent the weight of the carcases when hot, while the outer series represent the weight of said carcases when frozen. The levers are so hung and adjusted that when each carcass in travelin g along the rail-track passes over the plate attached to the recessed hanging-bar its hot and frozen weight is indicated on the dialplate by the pointer.

Referring to the drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a front and end view of the appliancc.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both the figures.

A is the front lever suspended on the fulcrum-pin a to the hanger B by means of the link Z) or its equivalent. Another link 0 is hung to a pin (Z, (just behind fulcrum-pin (1,) and to which the recessed haugingbar C is suspended. To this hanging-bar a plate I) is attached, which is of the same thickness as the railtrack E and fitting to an opening or gap therein.

I is the back lever with pointer e, having weight a suspended on the fulcrum-pin fto the hanger G. The inner end of lever A is suspended on the pin g to the pin it on inner end of lever F by means of the hooks '1 and i and link j or their equivalent.

II is the curved dial-plate attached to a suitable support. (Not shown.)

.I is the roller or pulley with hook 7., to which the carcass is hung.

The lever F with pointer 0 may be placed on either side of lever A and at any desired angle.

It will be readily seen that as the pulley J, together with the hook 7t, having a carcass hung thereto, passes over the plate I) the inner ends of the levers A and F are thereby depressed, thus causing the pointer c to swing upward and indicate the weights, hot and frozen, on the dial-plate II. The carcases can thus be passed along the rail very rapidly and each weighed as the pulley passes over the plate I).

I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details in the construction of my apparatus as shown in the annexed drawings, as they may be altered or modified without departing from the nature of my said invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

In track-scales, the combination with the track-rail having the movable section or block D, the lever A disposed horizontally at right angles to said track-rail, the bracket B having the hook, and the link suspended on said hook and pivotally supporting one end of the said lever above the rail, the recessed hanging bar attached at its lower end to the movable section or block, andpivotaliysuspended In witness whereof I have hereto sct my at its upper end to the pivoted end of lever hand to this specification in the presencc of A, the lever F working on a pivot, a suspendtwo subscribing witnesses.

ing' link and hook connecting the contiguous GILBERT ANDERSON. or corresponding ends of the two levers, and Witnesses: a pointer carried by said leverF and moving A. II. HART,

over a scale, substantially as described. HENRY SLATER. 

